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Five Reasons Why Financial Planning is Vital
“Financial planning helps you to set short and long-term financial goals and to draw up a step-by-step, structured plan to meet those goals. Here are five powerful reasons why with the guidance of an experienced financial advisor will help you to [...]
Crisis? What Crisis?
While the world around us feels like it is falling apart, you might be forgiven for missing the fact that many investment markets, including our own, have mostly recaptured losses and in some cases are making new highs. How can the value of assets such as [...]
Binary Thinking
What-Ifs & Why Binary Helps to disagree with yourself “I feel I change my mind all the time. And I sort of feel that’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being – to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. [...]
Do we need to worry about trade wars?
One of the most common headlines in the world currently relates to the concept of ‘trade wars’. This has quickly become the most cited risk to markets with 60% of the fund managers surveyed in the latest BofA Merrill Lynch Global Fund Manager Survey listing the possibility of a protracted trade war as the biggest risk to investment returns that they see on the horizon. Click here to read more.
The Cyril Effect
The political landscape in South Africa is changing by the day. As I write this, the State of the Nation Address has been postponed for the first time in our young democracy, the ANC National Executive Council has set up, and then subsequently cancelled an emergency [...]
What to expect from investment markets in 2018
The start of a new year brings with it a fresh mindset with which to consider investment prospects for 2018. Over the course of any given year, and in particular such a politically and economically busy one such as 2017, it is easy to lose track [...]
Recent Financial & Market News
Five things making headlines in South Africa today
By Aarti Bhana Avi and Afrox results, Transnet CEO to learn fate regarding suspension, Bain & Co to repay Sars, rand update.
Read full article here: Moneyweb
Crypto growth nears ‘ceiling’, ethereum co-founder Buterin says
By Nicole Bouckaert The days of explosive growth in the blockchain industry have likely come and gone now the average person is aware of its existence says Vitalik Buterin.
Read full article here: Moneyweb
7 EM countries at risk of exchange-rate crisis, Nomura says
By Nicole Bouckaert With five of the seven already in a currency crisis or a programme run by the International Monetary Fund, that leaves South Africa and Pakistan as the standouts.
Read full article here: Moneyweb
Crypto wipeout deepens to $640bn as ether leads declines
By Nicole Bouckaert Ether falls 10% on Monday.
Read full article here: Moneyweb
The human cost of SA gold
By Nicole Bouckaert More than 50 people have died in the country’s mines in 2018.
Read full article here: Moneyweb
The hefty fees exchanges levy for data feeds must be challenged
Fund groups know that the cost of data helps determine whether ‘best execution’ is being achieved
Read full article here: Financial Times